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Saturday, May 27, 2017

The challenge to work with GREEN

I am working with green scraps this month with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge
I limit myself to working with what is available in the scrap bins. The above hand pieced ( EPP) hexie star is my version and size of a free pattern, please look back through my hexie star posts to find the source.

I love the center fabric and have used it in several projects, and the shamrocks are from this year's St. Pat's day quilt.

The daisy fabric is also in my abstract and in person is a nice rich shade of green, very usable.
If I had any time this week to sew it was used on my abstract.

A friend of mine told me once she thought artists just knew what to do.

Bwaaaaahahahaha

Creating is a series of choices
I knew I wanted to border this with squares set in a background. Like little fancy garden squares in a rock bed. I chose this drab olive/tan organic fabric with variations. My thought is to quilt it with a light colored tan thread in little pebbles. I chose 2" raw squares because of the scale of the !!%.%" X 17" center, and I had a lot of that size in the scrap bin.

The outside border fabric is an emerald green with metallic gold shot thru, altho it looks darker here. It's just a possibility to return to some green after the squares are inset

See the golden bunny? It's paper, bought in Boulder on our pre-pup trip

Here it is with the poodle in too

I still am bothered by the center join and am not sure how I want to handle it. I may cut it somewhere again... stay tuned.

"Creativity is forging a path where there was none, then going down that path to see what's there!" LA Paylor 2017

Your blog teaches me a lot about using color to create interest and just letting my inner artist show thru. Your green improv block is very interesting. When I first look at it, I too see the horizontal line. Maybe slicing thru it and adding some of that border fabric would be nice as it would break up that line and incorporate the border. Gosh, it's fun to watch how you create these art pieces.

Hi, I'm back! (My comment problem was totally self-inflicted but I did figure it out.) I love the hexie stars.I'm not much help on your improv piece. I really like it especially the border addition. Could you soften the line across the middle with a piece of tulle, maybe cut with some curves? Maybe some day I'll be brave enough to try some improv, but I have trouble doing wonky anything. Hope Milo is making progress. He is a cutie.Pat

You know, your comment "creativity is a series of choices" really got me thinking about the difference between artists and people who say "I could never do that." Maybe it's not so much a difference between having talent and inspiration and not having those things, but a difference in having the courage to make choices -- to set off on one path, forsaking the others (at least for the time being). So often getting STARTED is the hardest part, making those first choices about where you want to go and how you'll begin. Lovely star block, by the way.

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